William P. Jencks

28.4k total citations · 8 hit papers
308 papers, 22.6k citations indexed

About

William P. Jencks is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, William P. Jencks has authored 308 papers receiving a total of 22.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 157 papers in Organic Chemistry, 126 papers in Molecular Biology and 66 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in William P. Jencks's work include Chemical Reaction Mechanisms (106 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (30 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (28 papers). William P. Jencks is often cited by papers focused on Chemical Reaction Mechanisms (106 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (30 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (28 papers). William P. Jencks collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and United Kingdom. William P. Jencks's co-authors include Eugene H. Cordes, Michael I. Page, Dwight R. Robinson, Mary. Gilchrist, Daniel Herschlag, John P. Richard, Arnold C. Satterthwait, Michael J. Gresser, Roland G. Kallen and Julius A. Gordon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William P. Jencks

306 papers receiving 20.0k citations

Hit Papers

Catalysis in chemistry an... 1960 2026 1982 2004 1969 1971 1981 1975 1985 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Catalysis in chemistry and enzymology
    1969 2.6k citations William P. Jencks profile →
  2. Entropic Contributions to Rate Accelerations in Enzymic and Intramolecular Reactions and the Chelate Effect
    1971 816 citations William P. Jencks et al. profile →
  3. On the attribution and additivity of binding energies
    1981 735 citations William P. Jencks profile →
  4. Binding Energy, Specificity, and Enzymic Catalysis: The Circe Effect
    1975 713 citations William P. Jencks Advances in enzymology and related areas of molecular biology/Advances in enzymology and related subjects profile →
  5. A primer for the Bema Hapothle. An empirical approach to the characterization of changing transition-state structures
    1985 482 citations William P. Jencks profile →
  6. General acid-base catalysis of complex reactions in water
    1972 390 citations William P. Jencks profile →
  7. The Effect of Compounds of the Urea-Guanidinium Class on the Activity Coefficient of Acetyltetraglycine Ethyl Ester and Related Compounds1
    1965 389 citations William P. Jencks et al. profile →
  8. Reactivity of Nucleophilic Reagents toward Esters
    1960 319 citations William P. Jencks et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
William P. Jencks 12.3k 9.7k 3.6k 2.8k 2.7k 308 22.6k
W. Clark Still 13.0k 1.1× 13.0k 1.3× 4.4k 1.2× 1.4k 0.5× 2.7k 1.0× 173 25.5k
Thomas C. Bruice 8.1k 0.7× 6.0k 0.6× 1.9k 0.5× 1.3k 0.5× 4.1k 1.5× 546 16.5k
Dudley H. Williams 8.2k 0.7× 5.6k 0.6× 5.6k 1.6× 1.8k 0.6× 1.8k 0.7× 490 20.0k
Gregorio Weber 13.0k 1.1× 2.7k 0.3× 3.0k 0.8× 2.4k 0.8× 3.2k 1.2× 178 20.0k
Ronald Breslow 10.8k 0.9× 10.4k 1.1× 2.3k 0.6× 1.1k 0.4× 3.7k 1.4× 270 23.5k
Brian H. Robinson 5.5k 0.4× 5.3k 0.5× 1.5k 0.4× 1.4k 0.5× 1.9k 0.7× 319 14.2k
K. U. Ingold 4.1k 0.3× 16.9k 1.7× 1.0k 0.3× 4.1k 1.4× 2.7k 1.0× 442 27.3k
Wolfram Saenger 23.5k 1.9× 6.4k 0.7× 5.4k 1.5× 4.1k 1.5× 8.8k 3.3× 607 39.6k
George Némethy 10.1k 0.8× 2.3k 0.2× 2.9k 0.8× 1.4k 0.5× 3.4k 1.3× 134 15.1k
Edward M. Kosower 3.7k 0.3× 3.4k 0.4× 1.4k 0.4× 2.7k 0.9× 1.7k 0.6× 257 11.3k

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All Works

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Myung, Jayhyuk & William P. Jencks. (1995). There Is Only One Phosphoenzyme Intermediate with Bound Calcium on the Reaction Pathway of the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium ATPase. Biochemistry. 34(9). 3077–3083. 17 indexed citations
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Myung, Ja Hye & William P. Jencks. (1994). Substrate Specificity for Catalysis of Phosphoryl Transfer by the Calcium ATPase of Sarcoplasmic reticulum. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 313(1). 39–46. 3 indexed citations
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Myung, Jayhyuk & William P. Jencks. (1994). Lumenal and Cytoplasmic Binding Sites for Calcium on the Calcium ATPase of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Are Different and Independent. Biochemistry. 33(29). 8775–8785. 24 indexed citations
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Jencks, William P.. (1994). Reaction mechanisms, catalysis, and movement. Protein Science. 3(12). 2459–2464. 13 indexed citations
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Jencks, William P.. (1993). Destabilization is as important as binding. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Physical and Engineering Sciences. 345(1674). 3–10. 4 indexed citations
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Herschlag, Daniel, et al.. (1993). Catalysis of the hydrolysis of phosphorylated pyridines by alkaline phosphatase has little or no dependence on the pKa of the leaving group. Biochemistry. 32(34). 8737–8741. 19 indexed citations
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Reinstein, Jochen & William P. Jencks. (1993). The binding of ATP and magnesium to the calcium adenosinetriphosphatase of sarcoplasmic reticulum follows a random mechanism. Biochemistry. 32(26). 6632–6642. 12 indexed citations
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Jencks, William P.. (1992). On the Mechanism of ATP‐Driven Ca2+ Transport by the Calcium ATPase of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 671(1). 49–57. 16 indexed citations
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Khananshvili, Daniel, et al.. (1990). The calcium ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum is inhibited by one Ca2+ ion. FEBS Letters. 260(1). 83–84. 11 indexed citations
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Washabaugh, Michael W. & William P. Jencks. (1988). Thiazolium C(2)-proton exchange: structure-reactivity correlations and the pKa of thiamin C(2)-H revisited. Biochemistry. 27(14). 5044–5053. 91 indexed citations
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Chipman, David M. & William P. Jencks. (1988). Specificity of the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase at the hydrolysis step. Biochemistry. 27(15). 5707–5712. 5 indexed citations
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Jencks, William P., et al.. (1988). Binding of calcium to the calcium adenosine triphosphatase of sarcoplasmic reticulum. Biochemistry. 27(23). 8626–8635. 38 indexed citations
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Jencks, William P.. (1987). Economics of Enzyme Catalysis. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 52(0). 65–73. 47 indexed citations
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Jencks, William P.. (1980). The Utilization of Binding Energy in Coupled Vectorial Processes. Advances in enzymology and related areas of molecular biology/Advances in enzymology and related subjects. 51. 75–106. 136 indexed citations
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Jencks, William P.. (1975). Binding Energy, Specificity, and Enzymic Catalysis: The Circe Effect. Advances in enzymology and related areas of molecular biology/Advances in enzymology and related subjects. 43. 219–410. 713 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jencks, William P., et al.. (1964). The denaturation of crustacyanin. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 107(3). 511–520. 40 indexed citations

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